20 Mar
2008
20 Mar
'08
6:44 a.m.
Hey!
Which such a name, you're probably French, or can speak French, can't
you? Could be interesting to go on off-list in French, there will be a
barrier less!
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:15:42AM +0100, Raphaël Doursenaud wrote :
That's sure. What about 32bits plugins? I mean, my current PC is a AMD64
with Debian-AMD64, it works well, but the *** ndispluginwrapper solution
isn't very compliant and sometimes a bit.... "chiante".
OK, thanks.
Er, I guess my English or my informatics are too low right here. Could
you explain a bit deeper what you mean?
The studio is a mobile one, and there will be no need to websurf or
whatever, as there are other PCs dedicated to administration tasks next
to it!
Oh, yeah, you're right!
OK, I will. But I'm quite fanatics about KM184, and I begin knowing them
quite fine!
Actually, that's the point we need to argue further in the label. We
just made this choice upon specific characteristics, and some users
minds, but we now need to do a "listening-session" to be sure of us!
We'll check the Dynaudio Acoustics.
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- System :
Ubuntu Studio and/or Debian self-customized for
audio-purposes. Does it have a big interest for such audio
applications to install a 64bits distribution? I suppose there will be
problems with some 32bits plugins, although there is the
ndispluginwrapper solution. It's bit like a troll, but it really
matters for us.
I would go for a 64bit system these are future proof plus they are the
only ones that can address large memory sizes. . Proc: we
were going on a dual core (Intel or AMD), but as we've
seen that quadri-pro are not so expensive anymore, what do you think
about it?
I'd go for a quadri-pro IF there is no drawback. Needs a little bit of
testing. From what I heard AMD quads (Phenom) are not that good. . RAM: 4Gb at least (if quadri-pro, much more)
. Motherboard: we were thinking about using RAID (5 probably) in
order to increase reading speed, but it's only based on an
assumption (intuition?) that we could raise up the perf that way.
Are we right?
Be sure to use a dedicated hardware RAID controller and you'll get the
performances. We'd like this motherboard not to have
audio-embedded.
I'd go for a server grade motherboard like Tyan. The embedded audio can
be disabled but I find these usefull for system sounds, websurfing ... If you don't need 3D, ATI cards with radeonhd free
driver works
extremely well. My 2400Pro is by far more responsive than my GeForce7600
was with the proprietary driver. The whole system is a lot more stable
and RT performance is now rock solid.
OK, that's just fine. We don't need 3D (except if some plugin's
frontends need, but it would be quite unuseful!!!)
. Hard Drives: we think about a SATA drive for
system, and
day-to-day life, and then think about an external SATA solution
which allows to bring a new drive for every project (there will
probably be something like 3 or 4 albums a year on this studio). Of
course, if we want our assumption upon RAID5 to work, we need to
have two identical eSATA drives for each record session.
Seems good to me. Hotplugging would be a good feature to have > . two options for the recorders:
> + 2 RME Multiface II (i.e. 16 tracks) linked with ADAT to HDSP9532
> + 1 Alesis HD24 (i.e. 24 tracks and a hard drive) linked with
> ADAT to HDSP9532
[...]
What about using (3) RME Octamics II and a 9652? This brings a full 24
tracks.
Octamics countains preamps, we're not so keen on them, and we schedule
to buy external preamps. So this might be quite unuseful. Of course, we
could buy 3 Multiface II, but the point is that it's quite more
expensive than a single HD24. The other point is also that HD24 is fully
stand-alone, and in that way, we could do live-recording without moving
the whole stuff, which is a good thing also.
- External Hardware (that is quite off-topic with
this list, but, by the
way, if you want to know):
. 4x TL-Audio 5001 preamps
. 1x Neumann TLM 103
. 2x Neumann KM184
Look at the Oktavas MK-012, they are really cheap but highest quality. I
find them more "musical" than the "chirurgical" 184s. . 2x Genelec
8020 APM
I'm a big fan of Dynaudio Acoustics monitors, check them out!